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Friday, April 5, 1996 · Thunderdome

Sabres 4 at Lightning 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 96OVR Pat LaFontaine Sabres First Star 3A · 0 SOG L 68OVR Brian Bellows Lightning Second Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG G 72OVR Andrei Trefilov Sabres Third Star 40 SV · .930

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 19:08 Mark Astley (2) Pat LaFontaine (47) BUF 1 – 0 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 6:35 Derek Plante (21) Brad May (29) BUF 2 – 0 TBL
  2. 10:14 Brian Holzinger (10) PPG Derek Plante (31), Pat LaFontaine (48) BUF 3 – 0 TBL
  3. 18:34 Brian Bellows (21) PPG Michel Petit (7), Roman Hamrlik (48) BUF 3 – 1 TBL

3rd Period

  1. 0:37 Randy Burridge (24) Brian Holzinger (10), Pat LaFontaine (49) BUF 4 – 1 TBL
  2. 5:04 Chris Gratton (16) Jason Wiemer (7), Brian Bellows (25) BUF 4 – 2 TBL
  3. 12:47 Mikael Andersson (8) Cory Cross (14), Paul Ysebaert (13) BUF 4 – 3 TBL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat LaFontaine C 0 3 0 0 0 +1 0:00 2.03
Derek Plante C 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Brian Holzinger C 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Randy Burridge L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Mark Astley D 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Garry Galley D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Brad May L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.25
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Barrie Moore L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dane Jackson R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jason Dawe R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Michael Peca C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Scott Pearson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Brent Hughes L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Andrei Trefilov W 43 40 3 .930 60:00 1.75

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Bellows L 1 1 6 0 0 +1 0:00 1.98
Jason Wiemer C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Roman Hamrlik D 0 1 7 0 0 -1 0:00 1.00
Mikael Andersson R 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Chris Gratton C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.90
Paul Ysebaert L 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Cory Cross D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Michel Petit D 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Brian Bradley C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Rudy Poeschek D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
David Shaw D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rob Zamuner L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
John Tucker R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Aaron Gavey C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Alexander Selivanov R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Shawn Burr L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
John Cullen C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Igor Ulanov D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Daren Puppa L 22 18 4 .818 59:28 -1.20